The Effect Of Postpartum Depression On Adolescents

Postpartum depressions also know, as “baby blues” is a depression followed by mothers after giving birth. It usually happen during the 1st- 4th weeks after childbirth (Field, 2009). This depression covers a group of mental illnesses with an onset of psychotic symptoms that’s encountered after childbirth. There are many symptoms of postpartum depression such as fatigue, hormonal change, trauma of pregnancy or the adjustment of motherhood, feeling of worthless, guilt and many more (M, 2016). This type of depression affects all aspects of life and the lives of those around. Such as family, school, work. It also plays a major role in an infant who mother experience this depression. Although a mother may not have control over this depression, it can do tremendous harm towards a baby. This is a good topic to research because it brings awareness of the effect that postpartum depression can affect an infant through adolescent years. Also not only women experience this depression but men can experience this depression as well.
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A family member once started to experience postpartum depression after her son was born. She visualized herself biting her son repeatedly. This is something she didn 't carry out, but it was a thought to cause her …show more content…
There is a higher rate of major depression, which is twice as high for girls than boys during this period of adolescences. It has been observed also that adolescent of postpartum depressed mothers suffered from panic disorders, alcohol dependency, as well as phobias. Academically, the issues effecting school age children such as ADHD tend to carry over into adolescent years. In a longitudinal study of 132 children lower IQ scores, attention problems, difficulties in mathematical reasoning and special educational needs were significantly more frequent in children whose mothers were depressed at three months postpartum than in controls (Martin